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The Bug
In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).
On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F.
The operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log. (See the picture above.) The entry reads: "First actual case of bug being found."
(See the link at the bottom of this page for a much larger version of this picture.)
The word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born.
Although Grace Hopper was always careful to admit that she was not there when it actually happened, it was one of her favorite stories.
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What is first computer bug?
The word "bug" in computer terminology refers to an unexpected glitch that a program may execute by accident. The first computer bug was an actual bug! I forget how the story goes, but one day someone was opening up their computer to fix it because something was wrong with it, and they found a dead moth inside!
Who was the first person to discover the first computer bug?
Grace Hopper, USN. It was actually a moth that got caught between the contacts of relay #70 on panel F in an electromechanical computer at Harvard and got beaten to death. She found it taped it into the logbook with the problem description written by the technicians who had found and fixed the problem the night before. She added to their description "First actual case of bug being found.", but she was not the one that actually found it in the machine.
Was the first computer bug a real insect?
The first recorded computer bug was indeed an insect, a moth smashed in the contacts of a relay of the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. It caused a hardware malfunction not a software problem though. There were certainly many hardware & software problems before it though!!
What is a computer bug?
any problem in the computer's hardware or software..
Who first used the term bug in computer programming and where did this occur?
moth in computer in 1952The term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer in 1947, when a moth got smashed inside the contacts of a relay causing a failure. When the failure was located and the moth removed from the relay, the operator on that shift taped it to the logbook below the entry on the failure and labeled it First Computer Bug. That morning Grace Murray Hopper came on duty and read the logbook and thought it was a great story to tell every time she spoke somewhere. The first computer bug wasn't even in an electronic computer, the Harvard Mark II was electromechanical.
What was the first bug tracking system?
The first bug tracking system was the "IBM Control Program" developed in the 1950s by a team led by Grace Hopper. It was used to track and fix software defects in the Mark II computer system.
When was the term computer bug first used and why?
1947 for a moth smashed in relay of Harvard Mark II. It shut it down.
What type of bug stopped the first electronic computer?
More than likely a syntactical error caused by transposing input.
How to say bug in German?
Bug, as in insect, is die Wanze or das Insekt. Bug, as in computer bug, could be said a number of ways, like: Programmfehler.
What erases spyware from your computer?
bug zappers
What term was supposedly coined after a moth found its way into a computer called Mk1 at the Harvard University in 1945 and caused its malfunction?
bug - a computer bug
What did Grace Hopper find while working in a computer?
a computer bug is what she found in the computer
